New shame of YouTube over terror gang’s hate videos

GOOGLE was in the dock again over terror last night after it emerged an Islamist gang known as the Three Musketeers circulated hate-filled videos online.

Khobaib Hussain, 25, Naweed Ali, 29, and Mohibur Rahman, 33, were jailed for life last week after being caught by MI5 preparing an attack.

They shared at least 28 videos showing bloodshed and ‘martyrdom’ on Google’s YouTube platform. They were egging each other on to launch a suicide attack using a pipe bomb, meat cleaver and Samurai sword.

Some material was online for more than a year before being spotted and taken down. At least one video, which includes a lecture by an extremist linked to hate preacher Anjem Choudary, was still on the platform last night.

Tory MP Charlie Elphicke said: ‘This case underlines how video sharing giants need to take full responsibility in helping to win the war against terrorism.

‘It is extraordinary that these stayed up for several months and yet again it shows how YouTube need to do more to stamp out extremism on their site.’

A 12mins 55secs video posted by Hussain featured a hate preacher, with images of dead fighters and green birds representing ‘martyrs’ in paradise.

Rahman used the videos to radicalise a young relative. He sent him a YouTube film by the radical preacher Ahmad Musa Jibril, saying: ‘The intoxication of death will bring the truth.’ A late recruit of the cell, Tahir Aziz, 38, was told he would have to serve at least 15 years.

YouTube said: ‘We’ve taken significant steps in our fight against online terrorism in the past months.

‘There is work to be done, but we remain committed to being part of the solution on these complex issues.’